Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-02-04
SPIRETUzLTsM AG4IN-REPLY

When my reply TO Mr.. Hill appeared il
The REVIEW was amused to see Heavenly
Port turned into a Post, and a whispering
gallery, merely whispering, however no great
harm IS done. fad Brother Hill assumes he
has spoken against my creed, far from it.
am a Unitarian and II is our boast that VIC
have no iron-clad creed TO lclter the free heart
aud progressive mind. But we adhere to
living principles that may be summed up
thus: Loving service to God, loving help TO
our fellow beings, being and doing what is
right and good. We are al liberty to investi-
gate any subject wheresoever the spirit Of truth
leads US. simply arraigned him for mis-
stating the teachings of Spiritualism. do not
disdain to study subject from all standpoint
If wish to truthfully and intelligently speak
thereof, neither am / so egotistical as to think
I can interpret dear old mother natures les
sons better than any Others who have read and
written from her ever growing and glowing
pages, how am sanctihed and made better
by listening to the Post-king who SO long ago
wrote the nineteenth Psalm, not less beautifully
has later poet hymned her praise in the ''spa-
cious armament on high" did not intimate
that being well born obviates the necessity Of
OF second birth, but it might lessen the fear Of
it considerably. The second in order is aualo-
gous to the first, viz; separation of parts never
again to resumed, so taught Socrates, Jesus,
Paul, Swedenborg and Davis; and millions
of intelligent people believe it. Mr.. Hill says
if the doctrine Of spirituaism appertains to the
invisible, the imponderable, impenetrable, in
tangible he cannot comprehend it, can he not
comprehend thought yet can he prove that
lit has not those properties or hass will he bring
his miscroscope and scalpel, and balances, and
display to waiting millions the color, shape and
lweight, of thought will he stand before the
lKeely Motor and exhibit that power emanating
rom harmonica which moves that mighty
engine9 To the naked eye it is INVISIBLE, i'm
ponderable and intangible, yet to the seer in
1.-THE brain Of A. Wilford Hall it is substantial
entity, but like the spirIt-body it can penetrate
[coarser substances the door being shut. Trance
and dream are facts in the universe, as much
as wide awake condition. Let me quote from
1.-THE ignored book Natures Divine Reve-
lation" 'any theory, hypothesis, philosophy,
sect, creed or institution that fears investiga
tion, openly manifests its own error Spirit
ualists invite open, unprejudiced discussion
and investigation. Mr.. Hill recognizes fvs
senses, many people cognize six, and Prot
Pierce declares "there may be room fer NOR,
than forty new senses each having its own ef
feet on the nervous system Of the observer.
believe in every one having perfect liberty t.
do their own thinking but still hold ii unlai
to condemn any sect or creed without correc
knowledge Of its teachings. AS for me 81 holc
Ito one true church of all true souls, who's
churchly seal is neither bread or wine nor lay
ing on Of hand nor holy oil, but only the an
nointing Of Gods grace. l keep the holy faitl
in God, and man, and In the Angel ministran
between" Amen. MRS. REAME.